Stuff Stuff and Stuffing

This past week we held our own little Thanksgiving!! yaaaaay!! With 3 americanas and one brazilian.... yeah.... it was bound to happen.

It was kind of a lot of work because.... with all of our traveling, and normal daily missionary tasks... we had to really split up our time and money to get a little feast. (which we ended up not eating on Thursday night because everyone got home from proselyting really tired. So we ate a Thanksgiving breakfast. :D)

We bought all the stuff on P-Day. And then slowly throughout the week, with incriments of 30 minutes in the morning and at night we made Green bean casarole, funeral potatoes, jello with banana chunks, stuffing, and apple pie. :) It was super rocking awesome. Our house was sooooooo hoooooottttt after all that cooking!

But it was comforting to eat american.... kind of food. :)
There's another picture of us before leaving to lunch sneaking a little snack from the fridge. I'm eating hummus (hummus...?? whatever) a paste made from garbanzo beans that I make every week because I find it oh so very delicious. And Sister Aune chose the.... less healthy route hahahaha

Guaraná is a very popular soda pop here in brazil. Very tasty. And yes, I will try to bring some home to share with you all.

aaaand.... one time we were waiting to meet a member half way to her house to eat lunch and..... I was losing my mind. I cannot stand to be still soooo... we took pictures of my insanity. (we ended up not even waiting. we just left to search for her house because it was hot, I don't like waiting, and we were both getting cranky from hunger hahaha oh dear.... I'm feeling like I need to study chapter 6 of Preach my Gospel.)

The third picture is just a little picture of the enormous statue of a ..... Saint? (I am seriously forgetting English. What a frustration) It's normally a little statue that catholics put on their tombs and in their homes and they worship them. She protects their homes and their past loved ones. When they pray they generally pray to her. Well... Our lady Fátima is very popular. And because the majority of the country is catholic.... they made a big monument for her. And every sunday tons of people go to the monument grounds to do religious rituals and pray to her to protect the city of Cruz Alta and to feel comforted.

We pass this statue every day walking to our area. So... I decided to take a picture. I'll try to get a better picture later. But I'd also like to take a moment to recognize how SLANTED AND AWFUL THAT HILL IS AT THE BOTTOM.

okay. Now you all know. :) Have a great weeek!!! love you all!


love,
Sister Hennefer